This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pae, Bath, Williamson, Breedlove Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBC.2ACI/2380 Message Board Post: For individuals searching the family names of Bath, Breedlove, Pae and Williamson in Henrico Co. VA, I have a website that is located here: http://kanga.cc.wmich.edu/~rudged/gen/gen.html

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/43.46.330.1604 Message Board Post: Looking for Sarah A. Woodson, born 1829, died 1910. Married James S. Gay, born 1822, died about 1910. Believe her father was Tarleton or Tarlton Woodson. Can't find info to prove this. James S. Gay & Sarah Woodson were married 5/20-30/1842. They are my ggg grandparents on my Mother's side. Thank you mary

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: prewitt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/WBC.2ACI/111.603 Message Board Post: I have a Uriah Prewitt in my family line and will be glad to share information. If interested may email me at [email protected] David Prewitt

Hello List, Can anyone on the list give any information on the tree below? Who was Sarah Decker's parents & siblings, also the same for Sarah Allen his 2nd wife. What does R. H. stand for in there son's name. Thanks in advance. 1 Benjamin A. GRANGER 1805 - .. +Sarah M. DECKER 1800 - 1828 ......... 2 R. H. GRANGER 1826 - ......... 2 Stephen F. GRANGER 1828 - *2nd Wife of Benjamin A. GRANGER: .. +Sarah ALLEN 1807 - ......... 2 William P. GRANGER 1833 - ............. +J. Unk .................... 3 W(illiam) D. GRANGER 1859 - .................... 3 N. GRANGER 1860 - ......... 2 Young A. GRANGER 1837 - ......... 2 John W. GRANGER 1840 - ......... 2 Nancy H. GRANGER 1844 - ......... 2 Dicy J. GRANGER 1847 - Thanks, Mollie Charles Pawlik [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/69.293 Message Board Post: Littleberry Tucker Baughan was my great, great, great grandfather. My records indicate he was born around 1793 and died around 1856 in Henrico County. He married Sarah (Sally) Smoot on 26 February 1816 in Henrico. How are you related to him?

Looking for descendants and researchers of the Gen. George E. Pickett family. Shirley in OH

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lewis Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBC.2ACI/873.1 Message Board Post: I am looking for this information also- Please Email me if you hear of anythng Thank you

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/373.1262.1 Message Board Post: I am drect relation to Noah M. Reynolds and mary Chaney Stone. I ahve Thoas Reynolds born 1790 Burial St. Mary's, Pleasant, W.Va. Children Noah, Daniel and Henry. One thing to remember is that Va. split during the Civil War. I beleive that most of the family is 1850 Scott County, Va. Census record. The letcher Genealog have some records on this family. I have been to Mary and Noah grave site They are buried at the Reynolds Cemetry Seco, Ky. Letcher county.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBC.2ACI/2379.1 Message Board Post: I don't have the address, but the phone no. of Curles Neck Farm is 804-795-5470

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Woodson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBC.2ACI/2379 Message Board Post: I will be visiting Henrico County and surrounding areas in August. Would like to contact the owners of Curles Neck Plantation so that I may see the graveyards there. Can anyone supply me with an address?

Sandston Masonic Lodge No 216 49 W. Williamsburg Rd Sandston, VA 804.737.8717 American Legion Post 242 John B. Finley Rd. Sandston, VA 804.737.4121 I live in the Sandston/Highland Springs area and while the above are listed in the Richmond, VA phone book, the others are not listed under the names you gave below. I do know that the Scottish Rites temple is still in the same place it always was, but I don't know what the listing is. Hope this helps... -----Original Message----- From: Vincent E. Summers [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [VAHENRIC] Addresses of Current Institutions in Henrico Co Folks, Do any of you with a current Henrico County Phone Book (I know that the online sites are fairly good if you know what you are looking for, but are not always accurate) see addresses for these institutions that I could write to for information? Sandston Masonic Lodge No 216 AF & AM (what do AF & AM stand for?) Richmond Scottish Rites Body Sandston American Legion Post 242 Sandston H. S. Volunteer Fire Department (what does H. S. stand for?) Thanks, Vince Summers ==== VAHENRIC Mailing List ==== If you have any problems or questions about this list email me and I'll try my best to resolve them. Mike Simmons [email protected] List manager for VAHENRIC mailing list. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Folks, Do any of you with a current Henrico County Phone Book (I know that the online sites are fairly good if you know what you are looking for, but are not always accurate) see addresses for these institutions that I could write to for information? Sandston Masonic Lodge No 216 AF & AM (what do AF & AM stand for?) Richmond Scottish Rites Body Sandston American Legion Post 242 Sandston H. S. Volunteer Fire Department (what does H. S. stand for?) Thanks, Vince Summers

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/2378 Message Board Post: Francis Mann of Charlotte Co., VA Need input for the following: Francis Mann WP: 7 Nov 1768 Inv. recorded 2 Jan 1769 Charlotte Co., VA presumed to be the son of Francis Mann (d. 1753) and Elizabeth Page of Lunenburg Co., VA their children: Page, Francis, Cain, Robert, Able, John, Joel, Lucy, Agnes Francis Mann d. 1768 m. Mary (maiden name unknown) Children: Millington Mann, who was under age 21. Mary Mann, widow married Thomas Totty 23 Aug 1770 in Chesterfield Co., VA. Thomas Totty WD: 1771 Proved as "Thomas Totty, Sr." 3 Sep Chesterfield Will Bk 2, p. 9-10. In 1773 [18th Century Charlotte Children) Millington Mann, orphan of Francis Mann, by Robert his guardian ordered that the county surveyor off the dower of Mary Totty (wife of Thomas Totty,late widow of Francis Mann) land belonging to said orphan...and Arthur Totty to be bound to George Dabbs. Overseers of the poor to bind out, Jaylind Totty. Thomas Totty, granted letters of Admr. on his estate, the widow refusing to qualify and his estate to be appraised, 3, Dec. 1779. Who are the parents of Arthur Totty and Jaylind Totty? Mary Mann could be their mother.. As to Millington Mann, he is listed as an Infantry Soldier of Virginia in the Revolutionary War.

Hi! James Foss CHEW was born in Germantown, PA, attended a NJ military institute called Bordentown Military Institute, and eventually moved to Virginia. He had taken a wife Claudia of unknown surname. They are both deceased. The information I was given from a Rockingham County volunteer was: "He was born Oct 23, 1908 in Germantown PA and was the son of the late Louis DeRousse & Florence Foss Chew. According to his obit the only survivor was a sister-in-law. James lived at 119 Rosewood Circle in Bridgewater. He was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church and a graduate of B[or]dentown (N.J.) Military Institute. By the way James was buried in [the] Richmond, VA area at Washington Memorial Park Cemetery at Sandston. He apparently lived in Sandston, VA prior to moving to Bridgewater. He served three years in the Army and was a member of [the] Sandston Masonic Lodge No 216 AF & AM and the Richmond Scottish Rites Bodies. He was also a member of the Moose." Thus he is buried at Washington Memorial Park Cemetery. Is this a reasonably-sized cemetery that it might be easy to find a grave in? I would just *guess* that he could be in a Masonic section, but do not know that. If you are willing to take a photograph of the stone(s), it would be really much appreciated. He, I believe, ended this portion of the CHEW family name, as no survivors of his CHEW name are listed. Thanks for whatever you may know or be able to do... Vince Summers

I thought everyone might like to read this...It was sent to my Tennessee list....Tami Press release of the Melungeon Heritage Association Kingsport, Tennessee, June 20, 2002 - Some of the veil of mystery surrounding the "mysterious" Melungeons was lifted today when the results of a two-year DNA study were announced. New questions have been raised, however, concerning females potentially from Turkey and northern India who are a part of the Melungeon ancestry. The Melungeons are a group of people of unknown origin first documented in the mountains of Appalachia in the early 19th century. Many believed they were of mixed racial ancestry and the Melungeons faced legal and social discrimination. As a result, they tended to live in remote areas, most notably Newman's Ridge in Hancock County, Tennessee. In the 1940's and 1950' s, sociologists and anthropologists labeled the Melungeons and other similar groups as "tri-racial isolates." Over the years, numerous myths, legends, and theories evolved to explain the Melungeons' mysterious origins. These legends often involved sailors and explorers from Spain, Portugal, Carthage, or Phoenicia who were stranded on the American continent and intermarried with Indians. The Melungeons themselves often claimed to be "Portyghee." Most researchers believed they were a product of intermarriage between English and Scots-Irish settlers, Indians, and free African-Americans, and discounted their claims of Mediterranean origin. The DNA results announced today confirmed that the Melungeons have European, African, and Native American ancestry, as well as genetic similarities with populations in Turkey and northern India. More surprising, however, is the fact that some of these Turkish- and northern Indian- like sequences have been passed through the Melungeons' maternal lines, indicating that their overseas ancestors included not only male sailors and explorers, but females as well. The results were announced today at Fourth Union, a Melungeon conference in Kingsport, Tennessee sponsored by the Melungeon Heritage Association (MHA). MHA is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting research and understanding about Melungeons and other multi-racial groups in the United States. Dr. Kevin Jones, a biologist at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, conducted the study. The presence of Turkish and northern Indian haplotypes within the mitochondrial DNA samples taken from modern-day Melungeons indicates that women of European/Asian origin were a part of the original mixture that made up the Melungeon ancestry. Mitochondrial DNA comes from the female side of an individual's ancestry. Previous researchers had assumed that European males intermarried with Native Americans and African-Americans to produce the Melungeons. Although Native and African genes are definitely a part of the Melungeon genetic mix, women were among the overseas settlers who contributed to the Melungeon gene pool. Dr. N. Brent Kennedy speculated that the Melungeons were of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ancestry and published his theories in a book entitled The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People, published in 1994 by Mercer University Press. Dr. Jones, a native of London, England, studied at the University of Reading, and did post-doctoral research at Louisiana State University. He is currently a professor of biology at UVA-Wise, teaching courses including cell biology and genetics. Dr. Jones undertook this DNA study in 2000 at the suggestion of Dr. Kennedy, then vice-chancellor at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. Kennedy asked Jones to analyze DNA samples taken from members of known Melungeon families. Such a study would utilize technology not available to earlier researchers. "Brent Kennedy... explained the controversy that surrounded the origins of the Melungeons [and] realized that I had the DNA expertise to look at that," Jones related in an interview with Wayne Winkler, president of the Melungeon Heritage Association and author of an upcoming book about the Melungeons. "The subjects were largely chosen by Brent Kennedy on the basis of pursuing as many of the known Melungeon lineages that existed in the area and taking advantage of his genealogical expertise. People were then asked to donate samples to the study, and in the majority of cases they kindly did so." Single hairs were taken to study the mitochondrial DNA which traces the maternal lines of the subject. In other words, the samples represented DNA, which could be traced to the subject's mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and so on. "We also have a smaller number of samples which are cheek cells for looking at male inheritance," said Jones. "What we get from those is a DNA sequence which we can think of as being about an 600-long letter code, and we can take that string of 600 letters and compare those to what now is literally thousands of samples from around the world. We're interested both in the number of different sequences that we get from the population and also how they appear to relate to other samples worldwide." About 100 hair samples were studied for mitochondrial, or maternal, DNA, and about 30 samples of cheek cells were taken to study the Y-chromosome, or male, DNA. While more samples might have been taken, Jones said, "That's the beauty of science: one can always subsequently refine and extend the analyses." The technology available to Jones allowed him to study only the mitochondrial DNA samples; the Y-chromosome samples were sent to University College in London, England, for study. "The 'Y' is technically far harder to do, and indeed, relies on expertise in some other labs in the world to do it, so we're partly dependent on their cooperation and collaboration." Such testing is not perfect, of course, and does not tell researchers everything about an individual's inheritance. For example, neither test will give genetic information about a subject's paternal grandmother. However, the study was not particularly concerned with individual genealogies. "We're looking for patterns that exist in the population as a whole," according to Jones. "Now, obviously, each individual sample contributes to that, but I think that for an individual you can say relatively little. Looking at the patterns that occur throughout the population becomes important. And that means the number of samples that are looked at is also significant, and we've tried to do as many as is reasonably possible." Jones compared these samples to the thousands available through GenBank, an international genetics database, published scientific literature and the Mitochondrial DNA Concordance, databases containing DNA sequence information. Looking at the maternal lines of the Melungeons who were tested, Jones found considerable variation in ethnicity among the samples. "It's comparatively straightforward to link particular sequences to particular ethnic groups and different Continental areas of the world," he noted, "and the majority of those Melungeon-derived sequences were European in origin. Within those European samples, though, there is significant diversity, and some seem to reflect areas outside the traditional northern European sphere. "The ability to tie a sequence to a particular area is dependent upon the historical occurrence of any given haplotype somewhere, and the places that are easy to track are where we've had populations existing for a long time, and not being affected by a lot of different people coming in. So some, perhaps more isolated, areas of Europe are easier to track than more cosmopolitan [areas]." While the Melungeons are predominantly European in their genetic backgrounds, they are indeed tri-racial. "The appears to be a small percentage of both Native American and African-American sequences in there, too," Jones stated, "although they are certainly both in the minority. They' re both in there in about equal levels of representation as well." The long-held belief that the Melungeons originated in Portugal is neither borne out nor negated by Jones' research. "To date we've found no sequences that can be definitively traced back to uniquely Portuguese sequences. That doesn't mean that they don't exist. A large number of the European sequences are now widely spread throughout Europe, and if one of those genetic sequences happened to come from Portugal we would not detect that. We can't dismiss that theory at the moment, but we can't provide additional support for it."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burnett/Swepson/Jeffries Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/1200.1 Message Board Post: If you still need this info, I have it. Cathy Burnett [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/64.435.1 Message Board Post: I am also a g.g.g.g. granddaughter of Robert and Elizabeth Puckett.

Hi, My name is Sean Duncan and I'm trying to track down any information I can about my great-great-great-great-grandfather, Robert Duncan (circa 1760 - 1826). We know very little about his life before he purchased a tract of land in Louisa County in 1786, other than the deed says he had "for some time done business" in Richmond "and else where" before moving to Louisa County. For many generations, the family story has said that he was originally from Scotland, but as of yet we have no concrete evidence substantiating this. I am looking for any help anyone might be able to give me to help track down Robert's life in Richmond before 1786, before he moved to Louisa County. He started a plantation in the County, and we are nearly certain it was tobacco he was growing. We have found mention of a John and Ann Hicks also of Richmond who witnessed a deed during the time period and, apparently, gave a large amount of land to Robert Duncan's children. I theorize that perhaps Robert was in business with the Hicks, or perhaps they were of some relation to him, but I do not know where to go to find information about them. Finally, we do know that Robert had dealings (and apparently took out a mortgage with) Donald & Burton of London. The little I've been able to find about Donald & Burton is that they had a rather extensive business, including tobacco and textile exchanges, and at one time occupied the old Capitol in Richmond. The representatieve of the company who signed on Robert Duncan's mortgage was named James Brown, and may have been the same "Old Capitol Brown" that Samuel Mordecai referred to in his "Richmond in By-Gone Days" book (http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/ribgdva0.html). So, with all that said, does anyone have any suggestions for any good resources which might help me discover anything about Robert Duncan, John and Anne Hicks, or Donald & Burton in Henrico COunty pre-1786? Any information or tips anyone might have would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks, Sean C. Duncan [email protected] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/240.597 Message Board Post: Hi Harold. I'm currently researching my Johnson ancestors here in the Goochland/Henrico/Hanover. I'd love to hear about the documentation that you've found. I'm specifically looking for information on Hereford, Hancock, Reverdy, Anderson, Obediah, Daniel, John J.Sr., Michael Johnson, and Edward Johnston (Arthur Johnston's son). Strangely, I've had a harder time finding information on my ancestors born within the past 100 years than any of the ones preceeding that time.

To the researchers for CARR family. A Susan Carr born circa 1880 (Fredericksburg?) married Beverly Sener. A daughter was Ernestine Carr Sener. Beverly is a descendant of Thomas S. Thornton (born England 1816) and his first wife Isabella Layton. One of their daughters, "Aunt Belle," was Beverly's mother. I'm descended from Thomas' third wife. I've been told that the Sener's moved to Maryland, probably Baltimore and were in the tea business. From Virginia T.